Business Plan: Product: Recording program that follows student
A computer program that will load a piece of music, the student will press record and the program will record and track the student’s progress. It will mark where a student missed a note or marking. This could be used for a playing test or to track a student’s progress with learning a new piece. Could be more effective if also used at home while practicing to bring with them to a lesson.
This product could be beneficial to private lesson teachers as well as school music directors. It could be used to track practice time, used for playing tests, used for practicing during school, tracking progress. This program could also be used by students who are looking to become more invested in their own learning and will be able to watch their progress as well as being able to see where they have made a mistake and will be able to practice more efficiently by not repeatedly practicing parts they already know.
Tracking students’ progress can be difficult with large groups and this program will help with knowing how each student is progressing and what they need help mastering. The teacher will be able to better assess what their students’ needs are and does not need to waste precious time on teaching what is already learned.
This program is for any teacher that would like to optimize their time with their students as well as a student that would like to better their playing on their own time.
Professional Email:
To the creator of TorpedoBag,
My name is Adam Bidwell and have recently bought a TorpedoBag on the recommendation of a friend. I graduated from Capital University with a Music Education degree and am currently playing in a touring funk/soul band. The reason I bought the bag was to minimize damage done while it was in the trailer, the van, and various venues. I felt that it was important to give my instrument the best possible protection, particularly when put into potentially harmful circumstances.
Having seen the videos, I wanted to know, how were you able find the materials to make these products so durable, as well as keeping the price down? I saw that it was military grade material, but where did you think to use that material, as well as the shape of a circle?
Lastly, I wanted to ask how you got into this business. Where did your interest in producing the TorpedoBag come from?
All students have an innate desire to learn and it is the responsibility of the teacher to help nurture and fuel that fire by helping the student discover what inspires and interests them.
The room will be organized in such a manner that there will be two groups of desks on either side of the room, facing the center of the room. Each group will be situated in 4 rows of 3. This will allow each student the ability to see the teacher as well as their classmates while others are speaking. This will also allow the teacher the maximum amount of space to walk among their students.
At the beginning of the year, the students will design their own point deduction system for late assignments, late arrival, unexcused absences, unacceptable behavior etc. This will allow the students to feel ownership of their own consequences. If certain behaviors are not modified after point deduction, then the next step is to have a conference with the student to create a behavior modification plan. Past that, intervention with the student's parents, the student's other teachers, and/or a third party observer such as a guidance counselor or the principal.
The classroom must be a safe and comfortable place to foster learning and growth. This will be accomplished by the teacher respecting the students and themselves. The students will also respect themselves, their peers, and their teacher. Each student's opinion matters. It is also imperative that the teacher remain a learner alongside their students. They must never be content with staying the same in their teaching. They must continue to learn and construct their teaching to cater to every student. No student is the same and must be treated as such. What works with one student, may not work with any other student the teacher has, and this must be addressed.
Students crave structure whether they are conscious to this or not, and they want order. This will be fulfilled by the students always having something to do, whether it be other assignments, long-term projects, or reading their independent reading book.
Hippocratic Oath:
I swear that I will always encourage and promote growth in my students. I will always look at my students as individuals and treat them as such. I promise to never stop learning and will be open to trying anything that will help my students. To be open and honest in my teaching. I will admit fault and mistake. I will believe in my students. I will be a professional and act as a role model for my students, co-workers, and community. I promise to learn and grow with my students.
Readings Part One:
Sparta and Athens Compared -- Freeman
-Spartan education aimed at producing the best possible citizen as opposed to the best possible money maker, or consuming worker; community>individual
-Spartan education was always aimed at nationalism
-Athens: "We love and pursue wisdom, yet avoid bodily sloth; we love and pursue beauty, yet avoid bad taste and extravagance." Education was divided into body, mind, and taste.
-Athenian education emphasized that art and music had a strong influence over an individual's character.
-Athenian parents would lay blame on the teachers if their child misbehaved, leading me to believe that the majority of child rearing was left in the hands of the educators.
-The training of good character was the central focus of Athenian education.
-Spartan educators were of the highest quality whereas Athenian educators were not always as Athens maintained to have education be affordable by all.
The Hunting Germans and their Fighting Ways -- Caesar
-Whole life is devoted to hunting and military pursuits. From childhood, they become accustomed to hard work and hard times.
-Absence of agriculture leaves the people on an even plane. Keeps the common person in a contented state of mind.
An Indenture of Apprenticeship -- England
-A master of a craft takes on an apprentice that will help them with their work and will essentially do whatever the master asks of them. In return, the apprentice will not do anything that could sully their master's name and must not partake in anything that will distract them from their apprenticeship. The apprentice will fully submerse themselves into the learning of the craft. In lieu of payment, the master would provide all the essentials for the apprentice including room, board, clothing, living essentials, etc. as appropriate to maintain stature, for every year of the apprenticeship lasts.
The New Taste for Books -- Green
-As the ease of printing increased and the cost of printed material decreased, interest in learning began to increase as well. As information and education became cheaper and more easily accessible, the common person became more interested in obtaining said information.
Luther's Conception of the Dignity and Importance of the Teacher's Work -- Luther
Luther is explaining that the teaching or training of young people should be held as the most noble of pursuits. He further goes on to explain that you "can't teach an old dog new tricks" in that preaching is a difficult task as it is extremely hard to "reform old sinners" but it is easier to "bend and train new trees." Simply put, rather than try to teach an adult out of bad habits or to teach them something to better their lives, it is easier to teach and train them when they are young.
2. All of the texts were indicative of education being paramount to a good life, whether it be through building good character or simply mastering a craft, or maintaining submission of the common man. It is also inferred that in every text, their is an innate desire to learn and become educated. They all also seem to emphasize indoctrinating their children into the life of a learner whether through a trade or the need for young people to be molded early on to become what society expects from them. Not all of them agreed on the quality of teacher, and some make no mention of the quality other than there should be one. Also, the texts disagree with how much the common person ought to know and how much information ought to be available for them to obtain.
3. I would definitely agree that everyone is born with an innate desire to learn and that that desire needs to be fostered and guided, particularly when at a young age. While I disagree with Luther's assertions that it becomes more difficult to instill the habits of a good learner as someone gets older, but that it is not impossible by any means. I do agree that in this day and age, information has become so abundantly available that people have become lazy with the endless amounts of information literally at their fingertips. I think that it is important to nurture the natural curiosity in students at a young age to keep them interested in finding and figuring out how the world around them works and how that world came to be and where it can go. I also think that even though all of this available information has come at a price to us as a whole, only because that I feel as though the general population's attitude towards research and the pursuit of knowledge to be moot since it is so available to us. It could be just a cynical point of view as there are monstrous leaps in thinking happening in our age but I feel as though that only represents a minority of people. All the more important for us, as teachers, to foster this curiosity and desire early on and continuously.
I agree with portions of the apprenticeship in that it is immensely helpful to fully immerse ourselves into learning the skill that we are looking to learn. It's important to not only be taught but to also immediately have to apply that knowledge, at all times. Although I would argue that it is important that one skill does not a person make, but that I can appreciate the idea of avoiding all other facets of life other than the skill the apprentice is learning, therefore fully immersing themselves into their education.
Readings Part Two
1. People put their lives on the line for education because they wanted themselves or their children to have the greatest advantage in life that they could get. Education's power is that it creates the opportunity for all to be equal. One could argue that everyone has a different capacity for knowledge and that some are simply smarter than others, etc. However, without education, that dichotomy would never be able to unveil itself. Education does not make equality but grants the possibility for someone to fully realize their potential.
2. I think that education has always and will continue to be the way to achieve any kind of real power in this world. Even those that are born into power, seem to fall from their mantle without education to reinforce that power. Granted, education happens regardless of mitigating factors. Formal schooling is not necessary to learn. I think that no matter what, people will learn and will gravitate to what interests them and become fully immersed within that realm. I think that formal education helps to broaden that spectrum and aids in creating a safe environment for children to mature with others their age while also becoming enlightened to a multitude of paths their lives could take. What floors me, is that it took me so long to realize that what we learn in school is not just learning various subjects or rote memorization of fact. It is learning how to exist in the professional/adult world. I think that education is how we as a society can raise ourselves higher and to bring the world to a higher plane of existence. Removing education would bring about a passive population that would inevitably die off without someone to follow that has had an education. Suppressing education creates an easily controllable and manipulated population.
Without education, I think that I would have not been where I am now, but in some similar state. I learned a long time ago that I love learning, regardless of the formality of it. I don't think that I could stay content in various jobs or wherever because it would absolutely drive me insane. Take sales for example; after many jobs of selling objects or an idea, I was constantly miserable while being at that job. I'd like to believe, that even if I had never had any formal education, I would still have found a way to have gotten educated.
3. Education is not a privilege, and not even necessarily a right. It is something that exists whether you want to pursue it or not. It is always available, but it is still your choice on whether to follow that path or not. Most importantly, the ability to pursue an education is available. As a teacher, I would want to always present information to my students in various ways and facilities to try and capture my students' attention. In the end, it is up to them on whether they decide to follow or turn around.
Readings Part Three
Students go to school for more than an education in various subjects. School's role in the upbringing of a child is to mold them into a contributing member of society, whether that be a doctor, a writer, a lawyer, or a janitor. It is the educator's role to arm their students with an endless amount of weapons and tools, to use when life happens. The habits students form in school will follow them for the rest of their lives and it is of the utmost importance that those habits take on a positive nature. It is up to the educator to teach their students how to deal with and overcome the harshness that life can be.
I firmly believe that every student is born with an innate desire to learn. Without guidance, this desire may never be turned in a positive direction. Education is the key to mold that desire and that student into a contributing member of society. In my classroom, I will aid in focusing that desire into action. My role as an educator is to arm my students with a vast array of tools and weapons to navigate, deal with, and overcome the intricacies and harshness of life. I will challenge, confront, push, and coach my students every day, with patience and a smile on my face.
I believe that every student is their own individual, with different needs, wants, beliefs, and thought processes. I will strive to include every student in the learning process by providing multiple approaches and methods to support the various learning styles. I believe that inclusion is important to making a classroom a positive learning environment and I will support inclusion by creating alternative assessments and lessons to give my students the greatest chance to succeed. I believe that every student learns in a different way and at a different pace. I will make myself available to every student in order to aid in their education. I will employ various teaching methods to students, such as mini-lessons, hands-on activities, group and individual work, while constantly challenging them to further their education. I will make time to address the needs of the class as a whole, while also reserving time to address the needs of individual students.
My goal for my students is that they leave my classroom knowing themselves, the world, and how they fit into that world better than when they walked in. It is important to me, as an educator, to impress upon my students that they are allowed and encouraged to question, to doubt, to challenge, to criticize, and ultimately transform the world they live in; to never grow complacent in their education and to continually pursue knowledge. My goal is to create lifelong learners.
I believe that assessment is an important tool for teachers to employ when gauging how their students are grasping concepts. While testing is one commonly used tool, I will execute various methods for assessing my students. For example, I will use testing, writing, group discussion, one-on-one interfacing, in-class activities, and projects to accurately assess my students and their needs.
I believe that it is important to keep students up to date on the world that they live in. I will provide my students with a lens in which to see that the world consists of much more than their own school tax zone. I will present them with different views of the world around them and what is happening in it. I will teach them that the problems that other people are facing are also their problems as well and that it is all of our responsibility to help find a solution. I believe that it is my job as an educator to instill in my students the belief that our role as part of the human race is to make society a better place.
I will commit to continually learn from my students and strive to become a better educator. It is important that I not stay stagnant and become content with my teaching but to always continue to improve and look for ways to better serve my students. I will commit myself to learn alongside my students so that we will grow together. I believe that a healthy relationship must be maintained between teachers, administration, students, and parents. There must be a give and take between all involved in educating a student. There needs to be an understanding between teachers and parents in that the parent must trust that the teacher has their child's best interests at heart, and that the teacher must trust that the parent is helping to be a part of the solution. I want to have an open and supportive relationship with my administration so that I can come to them for help in finding ways to help a student. I believe that there needs to be an open dialogue between administration and teachers so that they can work together to set their students up to succeed.
Product: Recording program that follows student
A computer program that will load a piece of music, the student will press record and the program will record and track the student’s progress. It will mark where a student missed a note or marking. This could be used for a playing test or to track a student’s progress with learning a new piece. Could be more effective if also used at home while practicing to bring with them to a lesson.
This product could be beneficial to private lesson teachers as well as school music directors. It could be used to track practice time, used for playing tests, used for practicing during school, tracking progress. This program could also be used by students who are looking to become more invested in their own learning and will be able to watch their progress as well as being able to see where they have made a mistake and will be able to practice more efficiently by not repeatedly practicing parts they already know.
Tracking students’ progress can be difficult with large groups and this program will help with knowing how each student is progressing and what they need help mastering. The teacher will be able to better assess what their students’ needs are and does not need to waste precious time on teaching what is already learned.
This program is for any teacher that would like to optimize their time with their students as well as a student that would like to better their playing on their own time.
Professional Email:
To the creator of TorpedoBag,
My name is Adam Bidwell and have recently bought a TorpedoBag on the recommendation of a friend. I graduated from Capital University with a Music Education degree and am currently playing in a touring funk/soul band. The reason I bought the bag was to minimize damage done while it was in the trailer, the van, and various venues. I felt that it was important to give my instrument the best possible protection, particularly when put into potentially harmful circumstances.
Having seen the videos, I wanted to know, how were you able find the materials to make these products so durable, as well as keeping the price down? I saw that it was military grade material, but where did you think to use that material, as well as the shape of a circle?
Lastly, I wanted to ask how you got into this business. Where did your interest in producing the TorpedoBag come from?
Thank you,
Adam Bidwell
Self in Relation to Bronfenbrenner:
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5 Topics in Education:
Classroom Management:
All students have an innate desire to learn and it is the responsibility of the teacher to help nurture and fuel that fire by helping the student discover what inspires and interests them.
The room will be organized in such a manner that there will be two groups of desks on either side of the room, facing the center of the room. Each group will be situated in 4 rows of 3. This will allow each student the ability to see the teacher as well as their classmates while others are speaking. This will also allow the teacher the maximum amount of space to walk among their students.
At the beginning of the year, the students will design their own point deduction system for late assignments, late arrival, unexcused absences, unacceptable behavior etc. This will allow the students to feel ownership of their own consequences. If certain behaviors are not modified after point deduction, then the next step is to have a conference with the student to create a behavior modification plan. Past that, intervention with the student's parents, the student's other teachers, and/or a third party observer such as a guidance counselor or the principal.
The classroom must be a safe and comfortable place to foster learning and growth. This will be accomplished by the teacher respecting the students and themselves. The students will also respect themselves, their peers, and their teacher. Each student's opinion matters. It is also imperative that the teacher remain a learner alongside their students. They must never be content with staying the same in their teaching. They must continue to learn and construct their teaching to cater to every student. No student is the same and must be treated as such. What works with one student, may not work with any other student the teacher has, and this must be addressed.
Students crave structure whether they are conscious to this or not, and they want order. This will be fulfilled by the students always having something to do, whether it be other assignments, long-term projects, or reading their independent reading book.
Hippocratic Oath:
I swear that I will always encourage and promote growth in my students. I will always look at my students as individuals and treat them as such. I promise to never stop learning and will be open to trying anything that will help my students. To be open and honest in my teaching. I will admit fault and mistake. I will believe in my students. I will be a professional and act as a role model for my students, co-workers, and community. I promise to learn and grow with my students.
Readings Part One:
Sparta and Athens Compared -- Freeman
-Spartan education aimed at producing the best possible citizen as opposed to the best possible money maker, or consuming worker; community>individual
-Spartan education was always aimed at nationalism
-Athens: "We love and pursue wisdom, yet avoid bodily sloth; we love and pursue beauty, yet avoid bad taste and extravagance." Education was divided into body, mind, and taste.
-Athenian education emphasized that art and music had a strong influence over an individual's character.
-Athenian parents would lay blame on the teachers if their child misbehaved, leading me to believe that the majority of child rearing was left in the hands of the educators.
-The training of good character was the central focus of Athenian education.
-Spartan educators were of the highest quality whereas Athenian educators were not always as Athens maintained to have education be affordable by all.
The Hunting Germans and their Fighting Ways -- Caesar
-Whole life is devoted to hunting and military pursuits. From childhood, they become accustomed to hard work and hard times.
-Absence of agriculture leaves the people on an even plane. Keeps the common person in a contented state of mind.
An Indenture of Apprenticeship -- England
-A master of a craft takes on an apprentice that will help them with their work and will essentially do whatever the master asks of them. In return, the apprentice will not do anything that could sully their master's name and must not partake in anything that will distract them from their apprenticeship. The apprentice will fully submerse themselves into the learning of the craft. In lieu of payment, the master would provide all the essentials for the apprentice including room, board, clothing, living essentials, etc. as appropriate to maintain stature, for every year of the apprenticeship lasts.
The New Taste for Books -- Green
-As the ease of printing increased and the cost of printed material decreased, interest in learning began to increase as well. As information and education became cheaper and more easily accessible, the common person became more interested in obtaining said information.
Luther's Conception of the Dignity and Importance of the Teacher's Work -- Luther
Luther is explaining that the teaching or training of young people should be held as the most noble of pursuits. He further goes on to explain that you "can't teach an old dog new tricks" in that preaching is a difficult task as it is extremely hard to "reform old sinners" but it is easier to "bend and train new trees." Simply put, rather than try to teach an adult out of bad habits or to teach them something to better their lives, it is easier to teach and train them when they are young.
2. All of the texts were indicative of education being paramount to a good life, whether it be through building good character or simply mastering a craft, or maintaining submission of the common man. It is also inferred that in every text, their is an innate desire to learn and become educated. They all also seem to emphasize indoctrinating their children into the life of a learner whether through a trade or the need for young people to be molded early on to become what society expects from them. Not all of them agreed on the quality of teacher, and some make no mention of the quality other than there should be one. Also, the texts disagree with how much the common person ought to know and how much information ought to be available for them to obtain.
3. I would definitely agree that everyone is born with an innate desire to learn and that that desire needs to be fostered and guided, particularly when at a young age. While I disagree with Luther's assertions that it becomes more difficult to instill the habits of a good learner as someone gets older, but that it is not impossible by any means. I do agree that in this day and age, information has become so abundantly available that people have become lazy with the endless amounts of information literally at their fingertips. I think that it is important to nurture the natural curiosity in students at a young age to keep them interested in finding and figuring out how the world around them works and how that world came to be and where it can go. I also think that even though all of this available information has come at a price to us as a whole, only because that I feel as though the general population's attitude towards research and the pursuit of knowledge to be moot since it is so available to us. It could be just a cynical point of view as there are monstrous leaps in thinking happening in our age but I feel as though that only represents a minority of people. All the more important for us, as teachers, to foster this curiosity and desire early on and continuously.
I agree with portions of the apprenticeship in that it is immensely helpful to fully immerse ourselves into learning the skill that we are looking to learn. It's important to not only be taught but to also immediately have to apply that knowledge, at all times. Although I would argue that it is important that one skill does not a person make, but that I can appreciate the idea of avoiding all other facets of life other than the skill the apprentice is learning, therefore fully immersing themselves into their education.
Readings Part Two
1. People put their lives on the line for education because they wanted themselves or their children to have the greatest advantage in life that they could get. Education's power is that it creates the opportunity for all to be equal. One could argue that everyone has a different capacity for knowledge and that some are simply smarter than others, etc. However, without education, that dichotomy would never be able to unveil itself. Education does not make equality but grants the possibility for someone to fully realize their potential.
2. I think that education has always and will continue to be the way to achieve any kind of real power in this world. Even those that are born into power, seem to fall from their mantle without education to reinforce that power. Granted, education happens regardless of mitigating factors. Formal schooling is not necessary to learn. I think that no matter what, people will learn and will gravitate to what interests them and become fully immersed within that realm. I think that formal education helps to broaden that spectrum and aids in creating a safe environment for children to mature with others their age while also becoming enlightened to a multitude of paths their lives could take. What floors me, is that it took me so long to realize that what we learn in school is not just learning various subjects or rote memorization of fact. It is learning how to exist in the professional/adult world. I think that education is how we as a society can raise ourselves higher and to bring the world to a higher plane of existence. Removing education would bring about a passive population that would inevitably die off without someone to follow that has had an education. Suppressing education creates an easily controllable and manipulated population.
Without education, I think that I would have not been where I am now, but in some similar state. I learned a long time ago that I love learning, regardless of the formality of it. I don't think that I could stay content in various jobs or wherever because it would absolutely drive me insane. Take sales for example; after many jobs of selling objects or an idea, I was constantly miserable while being at that job. I'd like to believe, that even if I had never had any formal education, I would still have found a way to have gotten educated.
3. Education is not a privilege, and not even necessarily a right. It is something that exists whether you want to pursue it or not. It is always available, but it is still your choice on whether to follow that path or not. Most importantly, the ability to pursue an education is available. As a teacher, I would want to always present information to my students in various ways and facilities to try and capture my students' attention. In the end, it is up to them on whether they decide to follow or turn around.
Readings Part Three
Students go to school for more than an education in various subjects. School's role in the upbringing of a child is to mold them into a contributing member of society, whether that be a doctor, a writer, a lawyer, or a janitor. It is the educator's role to arm their students with an endless amount of weapons and tools, to use when life happens. The habits students form in school will follow them for the rest of their lives and it is of the utmost importance that those habits take on a positive nature. It is up to the educator to teach their students how to deal with and overcome the harshness that life can be.
I firmly believe that every student is born with an innate desire to learn. Without guidance, this desire may never be turned in a positive direction. Education is the key to mold that desire and that student into a contributing member of society. In my classroom, I will aid in focusing that desire into action. My role as an educator is to arm my students with a vast array of tools and weapons to navigate, deal with, and overcome the intricacies and harshness of life. I will challenge, confront, push, and coach my students every day, with patience and a smile on my face.
I believe that every student is their own individual, with different needs, wants, beliefs, and thought processes. I will strive to include every student in the learning process by providing multiple approaches and methods to support the various learning styles. I believe that inclusion is important to making a classroom a positive learning environment and I will support inclusion by creating alternative assessments and lessons to give my students the greatest chance to succeed. I believe that every student learns in a different way and at a different pace. I will make myself available to every student in order to aid in their education. I will employ various teaching methods to students, such as mini-lessons, hands-on activities, group and individual work, while constantly challenging them to further their education. I will make time to address the needs of the class as a whole, while also reserving time to address the needs of individual students.
My goal for my students is that they leave my classroom knowing themselves, the world, and how they fit into that world better than when they walked in. It is important to me, as an educator, to impress upon my students that they are allowed and encouraged to question, to doubt, to challenge, to criticize, and ultimately transform the world they live in; to never grow complacent in their education and to continually pursue knowledge. My goal is to create lifelong learners.
I believe that assessment is an important tool for teachers to employ when gauging how their students are grasping concepts. While testing is one commonly used tool, I will execute various methods for assessing my students. For example, I will use testing, writing, group discussion, one-on-one interfacing, in-class activities, and projects to accurately assess my students and their needs.
I believe that it is important to keep students up to date on the world that they live in. I will provide my students with a lens in which to see that the world consists of much more than their own school tax zone. I will present them with different views of the world around them and what is happening in it. I will teach them that the problems that other people are facing are also their problems as well and that it is all of our responsibility to help find a solution. I believe that it is my job as an educator to instill in my students the belief that our role as part of the human race is to make society a better place.
I will commit to continually learn from my students and strive to become a better educator. It is important that I not stay stagnant and become content with my teaching but to always continue to improve and look for ways to better serve my students. I will commit myself to learn alongside my students so that we will grow together. I believe that a healthy relationship must be maintained between teachers, administration, students, and parents. There must be a give and take between all involved in educating a student. There needs to be an understanding between teachers and parents in that the parent must trust that the teacher has their child's best interests at heart, and that the teacher must trust that the parent is helping to be a part of the solution. I want to have an open and supportive relationship with my administration so that I can come to them for help in finding ways to help a student. I believe that there needs to be an open dialogue between administration and teachers so that they can work together to set their students up to succeed.